SEC by the numbers: Chad Kelly has shot at single-season passing mark

For all the talk about how SEC quarterbacks have struggled of late, half of the 10 best single-season passing totals in league history have come in this decade.

Johnny Manziel in 2013 and Chad Kelly last season have topped the 4,000-yard mark – just the second and third SEC quarterbacks to do so – this decade. And Aaron Murray in 2012, Ryan Mallett in 2010 and Dak Prescott last season also rank in the top 10 in league history in single-season passing yards.

Just four SEC schools – Ole Miss with Kelly, Texas A&M with Manziel, Kentucky with Tim Couch and Missouri with Chase Daniel – have had a quarterback throw for 4,000 yards in a season. Technically, just three SEC quarterbacks have done so because Daniel reached the plateau in 2008, when Mizzou was in the Big 12. Kelly has a chance this season to become the first SEC quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards twice.

Ten SEC schools – all but Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Vanderbilt – have had a 3,500-yard passer. Eight league quarterbacks have hit that mark this decade.

Finally, every SEC team has had a 3,000-yard passer, though it took a while. Alabama and Mississippi State were the last two schools to have a player reach the benchmark: The Tide's A.J. McCarron did it in 2013 and the Bulldogs' Dak Prescott reached the plateau in 2014. Arkansas has had five seasons with 3,000 passing yards, and all five have come in the past seven seasons, including four this decade.

Florida and Georgia lead the league with eight 3,000-yard seasons; Florida has had five quarterbacks hit 3,000, Georgia four.

Mississippi State

Missouri

Last 3,000-yard passer: Blaine Gabbert in 2010, 3,186 yards (Mizzou not in SEC at the time)Last 3,500-yard passer: Gabbert in 2009, 3,593 yards (Mizzou not in SEC at the time)Last 4,000-yard passer: Chase Daniel in 2008, 4,335 yards (Mizzou not in SEC at the time)All-time leader: Daniel in 20083,000-yard seasons: 5, by 2 quarterbacks